“We would have been forced to leave Kolkata like Kashmiri pandits if Modi and Amit Shah had not deployed so many forces to de-tox the atmosphere and ensured fearless voting”- A Bengali lady voter from Bhowanipur speaking on phone to the author

Nothing can explain better than this line of a voter about how Bengal felt before and after the election results.

Bengal suffered a lot at the hands of foreigners and those who shielded and supported them.

The deception of the British, Mir Qasim’s treachery, a British made artificial famine that took three million lives, Jinnah’s direct action, Noakhali, 1971 massacres, Naxal dark age, CPIM and TMC’s open loot, Marichjhapi massacre of post-partition Bengali Hindu refugees, Bangladeshi and Riyang infiltration . All this, and then add to it the rubbing of the secular salt on Hindu wounds by Bhadralok media and leaders. All these atrocious assaults and the murderous Naxalbari period targeted only Hindus. The assertive Hindu was mocked at, several forms of Jihads were launched, including love jihad and land jihad, like Kerala’s CPM attacks on RSS- BJP workers, TMC workers assaulted BJP supporters, BJP alleged several killings of its workers and even non-political Hindus had to live in fear of Bangladeshi Muslims. Bengali Hindus in Bangladesh and in West Bengal faced the same fate- to live in fear, get converted or find a shelter, leaving behind all that they had for generations.

The Bengal that gave India the greatest revolutionaries, saints, and rejuvenators of Hindu Dharma suffered in silence. It gave us Sri Aurobindo, Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyaya, the greatest writer of Bengal, who awakened India’s soul through Anand Math, which had Vande Mataram as part of the novel. It gave us Kabi Guru Rabindranath Thakur, who gave us our national anthem. Bengal gave us our national song and national anthem anthem and also the national anthem of Bangla Desh.

Bengal gave us the “Cyclonic Hindoo” Swami Vivekananda, his guru Ramakrishna Paramhansa and Sri Sri Sarada Mata

Bengal gave us Syama Prasad Mookerjee. Forgotten and sidelined by the secular Taliban.

These elections do not elect BJP or TMC candidates, but serve as a shield to the culture and soul of Bengal. It was a time to choose between Bharat and the foreigners’ virtual regime in the land that represents the Ganga Sagar, Kali Ma and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu.

Now with a Saffron Surge, the Bhagawa flutters high from Ganga to Ganga Sagar.

This has happened with the help of hundreds of thousands of Hindu workers, led by RSS teams to reach out to millions of homes for awakening the fearful voters who wanted a Poribortan (change) but were threatened by TMMC goons.

The biggest step towards saving democracy was taken by the Election Commission in a brave, courageous move. West Bengal’s Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of the voter list led to one of the largest electoral roll clean-ups in recent years. App 91 lakh fake, invalid voters were deleted from electoral rolls – a world record indeed. The meticulous planning of Modi and Shah was the story that must be told to generations for many centuries. A Bengal that was always ruled either by Congress, Communists or the ex Congress leaders’ party TMC – namely Congress’ BC Ray (13 yrs) and Sidharth Shankar Ray (5 yrs), Jyoti Basu (23 yrs) and Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee of CPM (11 yrs) then TMC led by Mamta Bandopadhyay (15 yrs), finally chose the saffron party for the first time after independence.

Modi and Amit Shah can both be declared as the architects of the saffron victory. From Jhalmuri to thousands of crore development projects, from nailing TMC where it hit them hardest, and emotionally invoking Bengal’s mother power, nothing was left to chance. In Bardhman Modi said- “Over the last few decades, the demography has changed in many areas of Bengal. Bengali Hindus are being turned into a minority. The TMC is opposed to giving citizenship to Hindus because, for them, their vote bank is paramount. They do not consider Hindus as their vote bank because they [Hindus] do not add to their criminal gangs.” He said the TMC opposed the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) so that infiltrators are not removed from the voter roll. ‘They are not even ready to delete the names of dead voters,” Modi said at a rally in Kolkata that “MC-Left and Congress people say that Modi’s head should be broken with sticks, Modi should be shot, but I am also firm on my stand. The more they hate me, the more I will serve my countrymen.”

He was strongly vocal on attacks on the Hindus and candidly declared, “A TMC MLA in Bengal made an open threat, stating that they would drown Hindus in the Bhagirathi River within two hours. This highlights the dire situation faced by Hindus in Bengal, where they have been marginalised and treated as second-class citizens. ”

Further on Hindus’ pains and sufferings in Sandeshkhali, he said,” In Sandeshkhali, a grave crime was committed against women, particularly our Dalit women. Despite widespread demands for action, the TMC appeared to shield the perpetrator. Further, is this protection solely because the culprit’s name is Shahjahan Sheikh?

He laid the foundation stone, inaugurated various development works worth Rs. 18,700 crore in Kolkata only. As an icing on the cake, he announced six key guarantees for West Bengal, focusing on women’s safety, removal of illegal immigrants, implementation of the 7th Pay Commission, and ensuring justice. These promises became central to the BJP’s campaign strategy.

Modi unveiled development projects worth over ₹830 crore, flagged off three Amrit Bharat trains in Bengal, and attended the Viksit Bharat Viksit West Bengal programme during which he inaugurated, dedicated and laid the foundation stone of multiple development projects worth Rs 4500 crore in Siliguri. His development projects included the flagging off of the Siliguri-Radhikapur train.

BJP’s victory in Bengal is going to change the political narrative in India, impacting the southern politics too in a big way. It will change the internal organisational power structure in the party, making it more invincible, introducing transformative changes in a stronger and bolder way.

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